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We have announced the 2014/15 Tableau Zen Masters! Read our post to discover which customers have made the biggest contributions to the Tableau Community in the past year.

Here at Tableau, we are so often blown away by the dedication of customers in our community. Tableau User Groups (TUGs for short) are the perfect example. Our User Groups are organically formed communities that meet throughout the year to share best practices and Tableau experiences. We have geographical, industry and company-specific TUGs meeting all over the globe.

At Tableau, the end of the summer doesn't mean back-to-school, it means back to CONFERENCE! With TC14 right around the corner it's no surprise that there are a ton of great posts this month, chalk full of sweet Tableau gems.

The Seattle Sounders are having the best year in Major League Soccer. Not only does the team have the best record in MLS, but they have far and away the best attendance by fans of any MLS club. To top it off, the squad sent two players, Clint Dempsey and DeAndre Yedlin, to join the U.S. Men’s National Team to compete at the World Cup in Brazil.

Esta es la última publicación de una serie de tres publicaciones acerca de las extracciones de datos de Tableau (TDE). En la primera publicación, analizamos cómo Tableau crea y usa las extracciones de datos. En la segunda, vimos por qué es conveniente usar TDE y algunas aplicaciones específicas de muestra. En esta última publicación, consideraremos consejos, técnicas y prácticas recomendadas.

Esta es la segunda publicación de una serie de tres publicaciones acerca de las extracciones de datos de Tableau. En la primera publicación, analizamos cómo Tableau crea y usa las extracciones de datos. Si el contenido de la primera publicación no lo convenció de los beneficios de las TDE, aquí presentamos varias razones por las cuales las extracciones de datos de Tableau (TDE) son valiosas, e incluso esenciales, para los usuarios de Tableau.

This past June, Jessica Hennessey, an assistant professor of economics at Furman University used a Tableau for Teaching travel grant to speak at the American Economic Association Conference. She then recapped her experience for us and how Tableau changed her teaching experience. If you've ever wondered how Tableau is being used in education to enhance student learning, read on! And if you want to get a travel grant for your next academic conference, contact our Tableau for Teaching team for more details.

Changes in the delivery of healthcare continues to be a leading subject throughout the country. A few Healthcare organizations are using innovative tools, such as Tableau Software, to better understand and react in order to improve healthcare outcomes. Improvement in health outcomes is based on providing better quality care at a reduced cost while still maintaining profitable operations in order to keep hospital and clinic doors open.There are multiple ways that healthcare organizations approach this – sometimes by reducing a patient’s length of stay. However, this can lead to a patient needing to be re-admitted for an unresolved medical issue. Are the long term costs of such an approach more costly than the short-term gains?

Esta es la primera publicación de una serie de tres publicaciones que tomarán una gran cantidad de información acerca de las extracciones de datos de Tableau, la comprimirán significativamente y la colocarán en la memoria, su memoria.

“Our mission is data for public good,” says Glen Szczypka, a Tableau customer we recently had the opportunity to meet. Glen is Deputy Director at the Health Media Collaboratory, and is one of a growing number of people who use data to improve access to health and education services. We're constantly inspired by data rockstars like Glen. Lucky for us, a number of them have recently shared their stories with us—including Dan Scott of Goodwill Education Initiatives of Indiana (Goodwill Education) and Jordan Slice from the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (South Carolina Campaign). And we're excited to share some of the awesome things they're doing with data.

"Don't just turn out charts, you need to tell a story." Ernest Collings, Experience Executive at global market research agency MESH tells how Tableau transformed their client experience during his TC On Tour session in London.

Over the last 7 months, Ernie has been using Tableau at MESH and working closely with the data team to transform the way the business processes market research data.

What is infrastructure? According to The Economist it's "The economic arteries and veins. Roads, ports, railways, airports, power lines, pipes and wires that enable people, goods, commodities, water, energy and information to move about efficiently."

Chris Gage, Director at Turner & Townsend, a leading global programme management and construction consultancy, explains how Tableau enables him to make data-driven decisions about world-wide infrastructure projects and investments during his Tableau Conference on Tour session this week.